Method and apparatus for processing word vector of neural machine translation model, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium

ABSTRACT

A method and an apparatus for processing word vectors of a neural machine translation model, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium are provided. In the method, word vectors that are input to an encoder and a decoder of a neural machine translation model are updated using semantic information among head representations at the same time and semantic information among head representations at different times, and the model is trained or translation is performed using the updated word vectors, thereby improving the model performance of the neural machine translation model.

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

The present application claims priority under 35 U.S.C. § 119 to ChineseApplication No. 201910229505.8 filed on Mar. 25, 2019, the entirecontents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention

The present invention relates to the field of neural machine translation(NMT) in natural language processing (NLP), and specifically, a methodand an apparatus for processing word vectors of a neural machinetranslation model, and a non-transitory computer-readable recordingmedium.

2. Description of the Related Art

Neural machine translation has made rapid progress in recent years andhas been widely used in industry. Neural machine translation refers to amachine translation method that performs translation modeling directlyusing a neural network in an end-to-end manner. Neural machinetranslation performs translation using a simple and intuitive method,described as follows. First, a source language sentence is encoded intoa dense vector using a neural network called an encoder, and then atarget language sentence is decoded from the vector using a neuralnetwork called a decoder. The above neural network model is generallycalled an “Encoder-Decoder” structure.

The basic framework of neural machine translation is based on a neuralnetwork model, an encoder is used to learn a semantic representation ofa source sentence, and a decoder is used to generate a target sentence.Generally, a neural machine translation model includes an attentionmechanism before an encoder and a decoder. The attention mechanismfocuses on an output of a current moment, and emphatically learnsinformation in a source sentence to which the decoder should pay moreattention at a next moment, based on the semantic representation of thesource sentence.

Recently, researchers have carried out considerable research on suchmodels of neural machine translation. Among them, the Transformer is amodel proposed by Google, and the structure of the Transformer is alsobased on that of an encoder-decoder. The structure of a typicalTransformer model is shown in FIG. 1. Unlike conventional models, theTransformer does not use a recurrent neural network (RNN) or aconvolutional neural network (CNN), but uses a self-attention mechanismto extract semantic feature information of sentences. In theself-attention mechanism, an input D-dimensional vector is divided intoH head representations, and the dimension of each head representation isD/H. Then, for each head representation at different times, a featurerepresentation is learned using the attention mechanism. Theself-attention mechanism is also called a multi-head attentionmechanism. The Transformer model shows good translation results, howeverthe performance of the multi-head attention model still has room forimprovement.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for processingword vectors of a neural machine translation model is provided. Themethod includes obtaining a word vector sequence that is input to anencoder and a decoder of the neural machine translation model, the wordvector sequence including at least two word vectors; dividing each wordvector in the word vector sequence into a plurality of headrepresentations with the same dimension; calculating, for each headrepresentation serving as a target head representation, a first vectorrepresentation of the target head representation in a target word vectorto which the target head representation belongs, the first vectorrepresentation being a non-linear function of a first intermediatevector, and the first intermediate vector being obtained by calculatinga weighted sum of the head representations in the target word vectorbased on correlation parameters between respective head representationsin the target word vector and the target head representation;calculating a weighted sum of head representations corresponding torespective word vectors in a target word vector sequence to which thetarget head representation belongs, based on attention parametersbetween the target head representation and head representationscorresponding to respective word vectors in the target word vectorsequence, to obtain a second vector representation of the target headrepresentation among word vectors of the target word vector sequence;combining the first vector representation and the second vectorrepresentation of each of the head representations to obtain thirdvector representations of the respective head representations, andmerging the third vector representations of the head representations inthe respective word vectors to obtain the updated word vectors; andtraining the neural machine translation model or translating using theupdated word vectors.

According to another aspect of the present invention, an apparatus forprocessing word vectors of a neural machine translation model isprovided. The apparatus includes a word vector sequence obtaining unitconfigured to obtain a word vector sequence that is input to an encoderand a decoder of the neural machine translation model, the word vectorsequence including at least two word vectors; a dividing unit configuredto divide each word vector in the word vector sequence into a pluralityof head representations with the same dimension; a first representingunit configured to calculate, for each head representation serving as atarget head representation, a first vector representation of the targethead representation in a target word vector to which the target headrepresentation belongs, the first vector representation being anon-linear function of a first intermediate vector, and the firstintermediate vector being obtained by calculating a weighted sum of thehead representations in the target word vector based on correlationparameters between respective head representations in the target wordvector and the target head representation; a second representing unitconfigured to calculate a weighted sum of head representationscorresponding to respective word vectors in a target word vectorsequence to which the target head representation belongs, based onattention parameters between the target head representation and headrepresentations corresponding to respective word vectors in the targetword vector sequence, to obtain a second vector representation of thetarget head representation among word vectors of the target word vectorsequence; a combining-merging unit configured to combine the firstvector representation and the second vector representation of each ofthe head representations to obtain third vector representations of therespective head representations, and merge the third vectorrepresentations of the head representations in the respective wordvectors to obtain the updated word vectors; and a word vector updatingunit configured to train the neural machine translation model ortranslate using the updated word vectors.

According to another aspect of the present invention, an apparatus forprocessing word vectors of a neural machine translation model isprovided. The apparatus includes a memory storing computer-executableinstructions; and one or more processors. The one or more processors areconfigured to execute the computer-executable instructions such that theone or more processors are configured to obtain a word vector sequencethat is input to an encoder and a decoder of the neural machinetranslation model, the word vector sequence including at least two wordvectors; divide each word vector in the word vector sequence into aplurality of head representations with the same dimension; calculate,for each head representation serving as a target head representation, afirst vector representation of the target head representation in atarget word vector to which the target head representation belongs, thefirst vector representation being a non-linear function of a firstintermediate vector, and the first intermediate vector being obtained bycalculating a weighted sum of the head representations in the targetword vector based on correlation parameters between respective headrepresentations in the target word vector and the target headrepresentation; calculate a weighted sum of head representationscorresponding to respective word vectors in a target word vectorsequence to which the target head representation belongs, based onattention parameters between the target head representation and headrepresentations corresponding to respective word vectors in the targetword vector sequence, to obtain a second vector representation of thetarget head representation among word vectors of the target word vectorsequence; combine the first vector representation and the second vectorrepresentation of each of the head representations to obtain thirdvector representations of the respective head representations, and mergethe third vector representations of the head representations in therespective word vectors to obtain the updated word vectors; and trainthe neural machine translation model or translate using the updated wordvectors.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a non-transitorycomputer-readable recording medium having computer-executableinstructions for execution by one or more processors is provided. Thecomputer-executable instructions, when executed, cause the one or moreprocessors to carry out a method for processing word vectors of a neuralmachine translation model. The method includes obtaining a word vectorsequence that is input to an encoder and a decoder of the neural machinetranslation model, the word vector sequence including at least two wordvectors; dividing each word vector in the word vector sequence into aplurality of head representations with the same dimension; calculating,for each head representation serving as a target head representation, afirst vector representation of the target head representation in atarget word vector to which the target head representation belongs, thefirst vector representation being a non-linear function of a firstintermediate vector, and the first intermediate vector being obtained bycalculating a weighted sum of the head representations in the targetword vector based on correlation parameters between respective headrepresentations in the target word vector and the target headrepresentation; calculating a weighted sum of head representationscorresponding to respective word vectors in a target word vectorsequence to which the target head representation belongs, based onattention parameters between the target head representation and headrepresentations corresponding to respective word vectors in the targetword vector sequence, to obtain a second vector representation of thetarget head representation among word vectors of the target word vectorsequence; combining the first vector representation and the secondvector representation of each of the head representations to obtainthird vector representations of the respective head representations, andmerging the third vector representations of the head representations inthe respective word vectors to obtain the updated word vectors; andtraining the neural machine translation model or translating using theupdated word vectors.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the presentinvention will be further clarified by describing, in detail,embodiments of the present invention in combination with the drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating the structure of aconventional Transformer model.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating the word vector processing method ofa neural machine translation model according to an embodiment of thepresent invention.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram illustrating an example of word vectorprocessing according to the embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a wordvector processing apparatus of a neural machine translation modelaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating the configuration of a wordvector processing apparatus of a neural machine translation modelaccording to another embodiment of the present invention.

DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

In the following, specific embodiments of the present invention will bedescribed in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, so asto facilitate the understanding of technical problems to be solved bythe present invention, technical solutions of the present invention, andadvantages of the present invention. The present invention is notlimited to the specifically described embodiments, and variousmodifications, combinations and replacements may be made withoutdeparting from the scope of the present invention. In addition,descriptions of well-known functions and constructions are omitted forclarity and conciseness.

Note that “one embodiment” or “an embodiment” mentioned in the presentspecification means that specific features, structures orcharacteristics relating to the embodiment are included in at least oneembodiment of the present invention. Thus, “one embodiment” or “anembodiment” mentioned in the present specification may not be the sameembodiment. Additionally, these specific features, structures orcharacteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or moreembodiments.

Note that steps of the methods may be performed in time order, howeverthe performing sequence is not limited to the time order. Further, thedescribed steps may be performed in parallel or independently.

In view of the problem of the conventional technology, an object of theembodiments of the present invention is to provide a method and anapparatus for processing word vectors of a neural machine translationmodel, and a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, whichfully utilize semantic information among head representations at thesame time and semantic information among head representations atdifferent times during model training or translating, thereby improvingtranslation performance of neural machine translation.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating a word vector processing method of aneural machine translation model according to an embodiment of thepresent invention. The word vector processing method of the neuralmachine translation model may be applied to a training process of theneural machine translation model, and can improve the performance of thetrained model. The word vector processing method of the neural machinetranslation model may also be applied to an actual translating processof the neural machine translation model, and can improve the translationperformance of sentences to be translated. Specifically, the neuralmachine translation model may be a sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) model,a convolutional sequence-to-sequence (convS2S) model, or a transformermodel. Note that the embodiments of the present invention may also beapplied to other types of neural machine translation models, and thepresent invention is not specifically limited.

As shown in FIG. 2, the word vector processing method of the neuralmachine translation model according to the embodiment of the presentinvention includes steps 201 to 206.

In step 201, a word vector sequence that is input to an encoder and adecoder of the neural machine translation model is obtained. The wordvector sequence includes at least two word vectors.

Here, the word vector sequence that is input to the encoder and thedecoder includes at least two word vectors at different times. In neuralmachine translation, words constituting a sentence correspond todifferent times. The word vector processing method according to theembodiment of the present invention may be applied to a training processof the neural machine translation model, and may also be applied to anactual translation process of the neural machine translation model. Instep 201, the word vector sequence that is input to an encoder end and adecoder end of the neural machine translation model is obtained. Theword vectors in the word vector sequence are updated in subsequentsteps, thereby performing model training or actual translating using theupdated word vectors.

As an example, in the process of training a neural machine translationmodel, source sentences in a parallel corpus are converted into a wordvector sequence including one or more word vectors and are input to anencoder. Target sentences in the parallel corpus are also converted intoa word vector sequence and are input to a decoder, thereby training themodel. Accordingly, in a case where the word vector processing methodaccording to the embodiment of the present invention is applied to atraining process of the neural machine translation model, in step 201,the word vector sequence obtained at the encoder end is the word vectorsequence of the source sentence, and the word vector sequence obtainedat the decoder end is the word vector sequence of the target sentence.

As another example, during the process of translating a first sentencewith trained neural machine translation model to obtain a translatedsecond sentence, a word vector sequence corresponding to the firstsentence is input to an encoder to sequentially obtain word vectors ofthe second sentence, and a word vector sequence consisting of thecurrently obtained word vectors of the second sentence is input to adecoder to predict a next word vector of the second sentence.Accordingly, in a case where the word vector processing method accordingto the embodiment of the present invention is applied to an actualtranslating process of the neural machine translation model, in step201, the word vector sequence obtained at the encoder end is the wordvector sequence of the first sentence to be translated, and the wordvector sequence obtained at the decoder end is the word vector sequenceconsisting of the currently obtained word vectors translated from thefirst sentence.

In step 202, each word vector in the word vector sequence is dividedinto a plurality of head representations with the same dimension.

Here, as an example of dividing method, each word vector may be dividedinto a plurality of head representations connected in sequence, the headrepresentations have the same dimension, and there is no overlap betweendifferent head representations. For example, assuming that the wordvector is 512-dimensional, the word vector may be divided into 8 headrepresentations, and the dimensions of all of the head representationsare 64-dimensional. Namely, the 1st to 64th elements in the word vectorare the 1st head representation, the 65th to 128th elements are the 2ndhead representation, and so on.

Note that the embodiment of the present invention may also adopt otherdifferent dividing methods, as long as the numbers of all headrepresentations divided from word vectors are the same and thedimensions of all head representations are the same.

In step 203, for each head representation serving as a target headrepresentation, a first vector representation of the target headrepresentation in the target word vector to which the target headrepresentation belongs is calculated. Here, the first vectorrepresentation is a non-linear function of a first intermediate vector,and the first intermediate vector is obtained by calculating a weightedsum of the head representations in the target word vector, based oncorrelation parameters between respective head representations in thetarget word vector and the target head representation.

In the embodiment of the present invention, for each head representation(for convenience of description, the currently processed headrepresentation is referred to as a target head representation), it isnecessary to calculate the first vector representation of the headrepresentation. In the calculation process, the correlation parameteramong the head representations in the word vector to which the headrepresentation belongs (for convenience of description, the word vectoris referred to as the target word vector) is introduced. Here, thecorrelation parameter is a model parameter updated by learning during atraining process of the neural machine translation model, and a specificupdating manner may refer to a training process of a model parameter inthe prior art.

Specifically, in step 203, the weighted sum of the head representationsin the target word vector may be calculated based on the correlationparameters between the respective head representations in the targetword vector and the target head representation, to obtain the firstintermediate vector. Then, the first intermediate vector may beconverted into word vector representations with the same dimension usinga preset non-linear function, to obtain the first vector representationof the target head representation in the target word vector.

Here, the non-linear function may preferably be a hyperbolic tangent(tanh) function, and may also be an S-shaped growth curve (Sigmoid)function or a rectified linear (ReLU) function. Note that the embodimentof the present invention is not specifically limited.

FIG. 3 shows a specific example of word vector processing. The wordvector sequence shown in FIG. 3 includes T word vectors corresponding todifferent times (such as time1, time2, . . . , timeT). In FIG. 3, a wordvector is divided into H head representations (such as head1, head2, . .. , headH), each box in FIG. 3 represents a head representation, and forexample h_(i) ^(k) represents the k-th head representation of the wordvector i. Each row in FIG. 3 represents a word vector in a word vectorsequence, and includes H header representations; each column includes Theader representations that have the same rank position (namely, thesame k value) in the respective word vectors to which the headerrepresentations belong respectively.

In step 203, for each head representation, the first vectorrepresentation of the head representation in the word vector iscalculated using the correlation parameters between the respective headrepresentations in a row where the head representation is located andthe head representation.

It can be seen that, by the calculation process of step 203, in thefirst vector representation, the semantic information between respectivehead representations in the same word vector and the target headrepresentation is introduced, namely, the semantic information among thehead representations at the same time in the word vector sequence isintroduced.

Preferably, in calculating the weighted sum, normalization processingmay be performed on the correlation parameters between the respectivehead representations in the target word vector and the target headrepresentation to obtain respective first weights of the headrepresentations in the target word vector. Then, the weighted sum of thehead representations in the target word vector may be calculated basedon the respective first weights, to obtain the first intermediatevector.

In step 204, a weighted sum of the head representations corresponding torespective word vectors in a target word vector sequence to which thetarget head representation belongs is calculated, based on attentionparameters between the target head representation and the headrepresentations corresponding to respective word vectors in the targetword vector sequence, to obtain a second vector representation of thetarget head representation among word vectors of the target word vectorsequence.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the second vectorrepresentation of the target head representation among the word vectorsof the word vector sequence to which the target head representationbelongs (for convenience of description, the word vector sequence isreferred to as the target word vector sequence) is also calculated.

Specifically, the attention parameters between the target headrepresentation and the head representations corresponding to therespective word vectors in the target word vector sequence may becalculated based on a preset attention function. Then, normalizationprocessing may be performed on the attention parameters between thetarget head representation and the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence to obtainrespective second weights of the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence. Here,the head representations corresponding to the respective word vectors inthe target word vector sequence (for convenience of description, thehead representation is referred to as a reference head representation)indicates that the rank position of the reference head representation inthe word vector sequence to which the reference head representationbelongs is the same as the rank position of the target headrepresentation in the word vector sequence to which the target headrepresentation belongs. Finally, the weighted sum of the headrepresentations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence is calculated based on the respective secondweights, to obtain the second vector representation of the target headrepresentation among word vectors of the target word vector sequence.

Here, the attention function may be a function commonly used in a neuralnetwork structure, which is used to measure semantic association betweentwo vectors. Note that the embodiment of the present invention is notspecifically limited.

As shown in FIG. 3, for example, in step 204, for each headrepresentation, the second vector representation of the headrepresentation among the word vectors is calculated using the attentionparameters between respective head representations in a column where thehead representation is located and the head representation.

It can be seen that, by the calculation process of step 204, in thesecond vector representation, the semantic information, betweenrespective corresponding head representations in the same word vectorsequence and the target head representation, is introduced, namely, thesemantic information among the head representations at the differenttimes in the word vector sequence is introduced.

Step 205: the first vector representation and the second vectorrepresentation of each of the head representations are combined toobtain third vector representations of the respective headrepresentations, and the third vector representations of the headrepresentations in the respective word vectors are merged to obtain theupdated word vectors.

Here, the first vector representation and the second vectorrepresentation of the head representation are obtained in above steps203 and 204, and the first vector representation and the second vectorrepresentation are combined in step 205. Specifically, a first productof a first combination parameter and the first vector representation ofthe head representation may be calculated, a second product of a secondcombination parameter and the second vector representation of the headrepresentation may be calculated, and a sum of the first product and thesecond product may be calculated to obtain the third vectorrepresentation of the head representation. Here, the first combinationparameter and the second combination parameter are model parametersupdated by learning during training of the neural machine translationmodel.

It can be seen that, in the third vector representation of the headrepresentation, the semantic information among the head representationsat the same time and the semantic information among the headrepresentations at the different times in the word vector sequence aresimultaneously introduced.

Here, after obtaining the third vector representation of each headrepresentation, the third vector representations of the headrepresentations in the respective word vectors that are input to theencoder or the decoder may be merged in an inverse manner with respectto the dividing processing in step 202. Accordingly, the word vectorsare updated to obtain the updated word vectors.

Step 206: training of the neural machine translation model ortranslating is performed using the updated word vectors.

In the embodiment of the present invention, after the word vectors thatare input to the encoder or the decoder are updated in step 205, thetraining of the neural machine translation model or the translating maybe performed using the updated word vectors.

From above, in the word vector processing method of the embodiment ofthe present invention, the word vectors that are input to the encoderand the decoder of the neural machine translation model are updatedusing the semantic information among the head representations at thesame time and the semantic information among the head representations atdifferent times, and the training of the model or the translating isperformed using the updated word vectors. The semantic information amongthe head representations at the same time and the semantic informationamong the head representations at different times are simultaneouslyconsidered, thus the model performance of the neural machine translationmodel according to the embodiment of the present invention can beimproved.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present invention, before step201, a sentence (such as a source sentence or a target sentence) that isinput to the encoder or the decoder may be mapped into a word vectorsequence consisting of word vectors. The mapping of the word vectors mayrefer to the implementation in the prior art. For example, word vectorrepresentations may be trained based on a collected corpus such as apreprocessed corpus. Word vectors may also be trained using a wordvector training tool such as word2vec, glove, or the like to form a wordvector library. Then, each word in an input sentence is mapped into aword vector from the trained word vector library.

In the following, an example of the steps in the above method will bedescribed in detail.

Suppose that an input sentence S may be expressed as (x₁, x₂, . . . ,x_(n)), where x_(i) is the i-th word in the sentence.

(1) First, word vectors of words may be obtained by performing trainingusing a word2vec method based on a Wikipedia Chinese corpus. The wordvector is vector representation of word semantics. The trained wordvector is expressed as WE, and for a word w, its word vector may beexpressed as WE(w).

Then, a word vector sequence of a sentence S is obtained based on theword vector WE. For a word x_(i) in S, its word vector may be expressedas WE (x_(i)). Thus, the sentence S may be expressed as (WE(x₁) , WE(x₂), WE(x₃) , . . . , WE(x_(n))). For simplicity, the above sentence S mayalso be expressed as (h₁, h₂, . . . , h_(n)), where h_(i) representsWE(x_(i)). Note that h_(i) represents a semantic vector of the wordx_(i) (namely, the word vector), and its dimension is denoted as D,respective dimensions represent respective different features.

(2) The calculation of the first vector representation includes thefollowing steps.

Each word vector h_(i) is divided into H head representations. Here, Hmay be a user-defined constant, such as H=8, and its size may be set toa constant divisible by the dimension D of h_(i). As a result, thedimension of each head representation after dividing is D/H. For h_(i),the head representations after dividing may be expressed as (h_(i) ¹,h_(i) ², h_(i) ³, . . . , h_(i) ^(H)).

For the k-th head representation h_(i) ^(k) in word vector h_(i), itsfirst vector representation is denoted as Y_(i) ^(k), and may becalculated using the following formulas.

y_(i)^(k) = tanh (Q_(i)^(k))$Q_{i}^{k} = {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{H}{u_{i}^{j,k}*h_{i}^{j}}}$$u_{i}^{j,k} = \frac{W_{i}^{j,k}}{\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{H}W_{i}^{j,k}}$

Where W_(i) ^(j,k) is a training parameter updated by learning duringmodel training, and represents a correlation parameter between headrepresentation h_(i) ^(j). and head representation h_(i) ^(k) in wordvector h_(i). It is intuitively understood that the first vectorrepresentation is a non-linear function of all intrinsic features in theword vector (intra word vector). In the above formula, the correlationparameters of the respective heads are normalized, then a firstintermediate vector Q_(i) ^(k) is obtained by calculating a weightedsum, and finally the first intermediate vector is mapped to a non-linearspace by using a tanh function to obtain the first vectorrepresentation.

(3) The calculation of the second vector representation includes thefollowing steps.

For the k-th head representation h_(i) ^(k) in word vector h_(i),correlation among head representations at different times is measuredbased on an attention function, and then the second vectorrepresentation P_(i) ^(k) is calculated, which represents the headrepresentation among word vectors (inter word vector). A specificcalculation method is shown in the following formulas.

a_(i, j)^(k) = attentionFun(h_(i)^(k), h_(j)^(k))$e_{i,j}^{k} = \frac{a_{i,j}^{k}}{\sum\limits_{l = 1}^{l = N}a_{i,l}^{k}}$$P_{i}^{k} = {\sum\limits_{l = 1}^{T}{e_{i,l}^{k}*h_{l}^{k}}}$

Where attentionFun represents the attention function for measuringsemantic association between two vectors, which may refer to functionscommonly used in the structure of a neural network.

(4) Combining of the first vector representation and the second vectorrepresentation may include the following calculation steps.

For head representation h_(i) ^(k), after calculation of combination inthis step, third vector representation Z_(i) ^(k) of head representationh_(i) ^(k) is obtained. Z_(i) ^(k) is determined by learning based onP_(i) ^(k) and Y_(i) ^(k), and the calculation formula is as follows.Z _(i) ^(k) =w _(p) P _(i) ^(k) +w _(y) Y _(i) ^(k)

Where w_(p) and w_(y) are model parameters updated by learning duringmodel training, and are determined by learning during training.

As a final output result of the word vector h_(i), the third vectorrepresentations of all head representations in word vector h_(i) aremerged using the following formula.CrossMultiHead(h _(i))=Concat(Z _(i) ¹ , Z _(i) ² , Z _(i) ³ , . . . , Z_(i) ^(H))

By the above calculation process, a new cross-attention mechanismaccording to the embodiment of the present invention is implemented,which can be directly used in models such as Transformer. Next, themodel may be trained using the given parallel corpus. The trainingprocess may refer to conventional Transformer models, and the modelobtained when the training is completed may be used for translation.

Compared with the conventional technology, in the word vector processingmethod of the neural machine translation model, the word vectors thatare input to the encoder and the decoder of the neural machinetranslation model are updated using the semantic information among thehead representations at the same time and the semantic information amongthe head representations at different times, and the training of themodel or the translating is performed using the updated word vectors.The semantic information among the head representations at the same timeand the semantic information among the head representations at differenttimes are simultaneously considered, thus the model performance of theneural machine translation model according to the embodiment of thepresent invention can be improved.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a word vectorprocessing apparatus of a neural machine translation model. FIG. 4 is ablock diagram illustrating a configuration of a word vector processingapparatus 400 of a neural machine translation model according to anembodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 4, the word vectorprocessing apparatus 400 may be used to process word vectors at anencoder end and a decoder end. The word vector processing apparatus 400specifically includes a word vector sequence obtaining unit 401, adividing unit 420, a first representing unit 403, a second representingunit 404, a combining-merging unit 405, and a word vector updating unit406.

The word vector sequence obtaining unit 401 obtains a word vectorsequence that is input to an encoder and a decoder of the neural machinetranslation model. Here, the word vector sequence includes at least twoword vectors.

The dividing unit 402 divides each word vector in the word vectorsequence into a plurality of head representations with the samedimension.

The first representing unit 403 calculates, for each head representationserving as a target head representation, a first vector representationof the target head representation in a target word vector to which thetarget head representation belongs. Here, the first vectorrepresentation is a non-linear function of a first intermediate vector,and the first intermediate vector is obtained by calculating a weightedsum of the head representations in the target word vector based oncorrelation parameters between respective. head representations in thetarget word vector and the target head representation

The second representing unit 404 calculates a weighted sum of headrepresentations corresponding to respective word vectors in a targetword vector sequence to which the target head representation belongs,based on attention parameters between the target head representation andhead representations corresponding to respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence, to obtain a second vector representation ofthe target head representation among word vectors of the target wordvector sequence.

The combining-merging unit 405 combines the first vector representationand the second vector representation of each of the head representationsto obtain third vector representations of the respective headrepresentations, and merges the third vector representations of the headrepresentations in the respective word vectors to obtain the updatedword vectors.

The word vector updating unit 406 trains of the neural machinetranslation model or translates using the updated word vectors.

Preferably, the first representing unit 403 calculates the weighted sumof the head representations in the target word vector based on thecorrelation parameters between the respective head representations inthe target word vector and the target head representation, to obtain thefirst intermediate vector. The correlation parameters are modelparameters updated by learning during a training process of the neuralmachine translation model. The first representing unit 403 then convertsthe first intermediate vector into word vector representations with thesame dimension using a preset non-linear function, to obtain the firstvector representation of the target head representation in the targetword vector.

Preferably, the first representing unit 403 performs normalizationprocessing on the correlation parameters between the respective headrepresentations in the target word vector and the target headrepresentation to obtain the respective first weights of the headrepresentations in the target word vector. The first representing unit403 then calculates the weighted sum of the head representations in thetarget word vector based on the respective first weights, to obtain thefirst intermediate vector.

Preferably, the non-linear function is a hyperbolic tangent (tanh)function, an S-shaped growth curve (Sigmoid) function, or a rectifiedlinear (ReLU) function.

Preferably, the second representing unit 404 calculates the attentionparameters between the target head representation and the headrepresentations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence, based on a preset attention function. Thesecond representing unit 404 then performs normalization processing onthe attention parameters between the target head representation and thehead representations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence to obtain respective second weights of thehead representations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence. The second representing unit 404 thencalculates the weighted sum of the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence based onthe respective second weights, to obtain the second vectorrepresentation of the target head representation among word vectors ofthe target word vector sequence.

Preferably, the combining-merging unit 405 calculates a first product ofa first combination parameter and the first vector representation of thehead representation, calculates a second product of a second combinationparameter and the second vector representation of the headrepresentation, and calculates the sum of the first product and thesecond product to obtain the third vector representation of the headrepresentation. Here, the first combination parameter and the secondcombination parameter are model parameters updated by learning duringthe training of the neural machine translation model.

In view of the above, in the word vector processing apparatus 400 of theneural machine translation model according to the embodiment of thepresent invention, the word vectors that are input to the encoder andthe decoder of the neural machine translation model are updated usingthe semantic information among the head representations at the same timeand the semantic information among the head representations at differenttimes, and the training of the model or the translating is performedusing the updated word vectors, thereby greatly improving the modelperformance of the neural machine translation model.

An embodiment of the present further provides a word vector processingapparatus of a neural machine translation model. FIG. 5 is a blockdiagram illustrating the configuration of a word vector processingapparatus 500 of a neural machine translation model according to anotherembodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the word vectorprocessing apparatus 500 includes a processor 502, and a memory 504storing computer-executable instructions.

When the computer-executable instructions are executed by the processor502, the processor 502 obtains a word vector sequence that is input toan encoder and a decoder of the neural machine translation model, theword vector sequence including at least two word vectors; divides eachword vector in the word vector sequence into a plurality of headrepresentations with the same dimension; calculates, for each headrepresentation serving as a target head representation, a first vectorrepresentation of the target head representation in a target word vectorto which the target head representation belongs, the first vectorrepresentation being a non-linear function of a first intermediatevector, and the first intermediate vector being obtained by calculatinga weighted sum of the head representations in the target word vectorbased on correlation parameters between respective head representationsin the target word vector and the target head representation; calculatesa weighted sum of head representations corresponding to respective wordvectors in a target word vector sequence to which the target headrepresentation belongs, based on attention parameters between the targethead representation and head representations corresponding to respectiveword vectors in the target word vector sequence, to obtain a secondvector representation of the target head representation among wordvectors of the target word vector sequence; combines the first vectorrepresentation and the second vector representation of each of the headrepresentations to obtain third vector representations of the respectivehead representations, and merges the third vector representations of thehead representations in the respective word vectors to obtain theupdated word vectors; and performs training of the neural machinetranslation model or translating using the updated word vectors.

Furthermore, as illustrated in FIG. 5, the word vector processingapparatus 500 further includes. a network interface 501, an input device503, a hard disk drive (HDD) 505, and a display device 506.

Each of the ports and each of the devices may be connected to each othervia a bus architecture. The processor 502, such as one or more centralprocessing units (CPUs), and the memory 504, such as one or more memoryunits, may be connected via various circuits. Other circuits such as anexternal device, a regulator, and a power management circuit may also beconnected via the bus architecture. Note that these devices arecommunicably connected via the bus architecture. The bus architectureincludes a power supply bus, a control bus and a status signal busbesides a data bus. The detailed description of the bus architecture isomitted here.

The network interface 501 may be connected to a network (such as theInternet, a LAN or the like), collect a corpus from the network, andstore the collected corpus in the hard disk drive 505.

The input device 503 may receive various commands such as predeterminedthreshold and its setting information input by a user, and transmit thecommands to the processor 502 to be executed. The input device 503 mayinclude a keyboard, a click apparatus (such as a mouse or a track ball),a touch board, a touch panel or the like.

The display device 506 may display a result obtained by executing thecommands, for example, a progress of model training and a translationresult of a sentence to be translated.

The memory 504 stores programs and data required for running anoperating system, and data such as intermediate results in calculationprocesses of the processor 502.

Note that the memory 504 of the embodiments of the present invention maybe a volatile memory or a nonvolatile memory, or may include both avolatile memory and a nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory may bea read-only memory (ROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), anerasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), an electrically erasableprogrammable read-only memory (EEPROM) or a flash memory. The volatilememory may be a random access memory (RAM), which may be used as anexternal high-speed buffer. The memory 504 of the apparatus or themethod is not limited to the described types of memory, and may includeany other suitable memory.

In some embodiments, the memory 504 stores executable modules or datastructure, their subsets, or their superset, i.e., an operating system(OS) 5041 and an application program 5042.

The operating system 5041 includes various system programs for realizingvarious essential tasks and processing tasks based on hardware, such asa frame layer, a core library layer, a drive layer and the like. Theapplication program 5042 includes various application programs forrealizing various application tasks, such as a browser and the like. Aprogram for realizing the method according to the embodiments of thepresent invention may be included in the application program 5042.

The method according to the above embodiments of the present inventionmay be applied to the processor 502 or may be realized by the processor502. The processor 502 may be an integrated circuit chip capable ofprocessing signals. Each step of the above method may be realized byinstructions in a form of integrated logic circuit of hardware in theprocessor 502 or a form of software. The processor 502 may be ageneral-purpose processor, a digital signal processor (DSP), anapplication specific integrated circuit (ASIC), field programmable gatearray signals (FPGA) or other programmable logic device (PLD), adiscrete gate or transistor logic, discrete hardware components capableof realizing or executing the methods, the steps and the logic blocks ofthe embodiments of the present invention. The general-purpose processormay be a micro-processor, or alternatively, the processor may be anycommon processor. The steps of the method according to the embodimentsof the present invention may be realized by a hardware decodingprocessor, or combination of hardware modules and software modules in adecoding processor. The software modules may be located in aconventional storage medium such as a random access memory (RAM), aflash memory, a read-only memory (ROM), a erasable programmableread-only memory (EPROM), an electrically erasable programmableread-only memory (EEPROM), a register or the like. The storage medium islocated in the memory 504, and the processor 502 reads information inthe memory 504 and realizes the steps of the above methods incombination with hardware.

Note that the embodiments described herein may be realized by hardware,software, firmware, intermediate code, microcode or any combinationthereof. For hardware implementation, the processor may be realized inone or more application specific integrated circuits (ASIC), digitalsignal processing devices (DSPD), programmable logic devices (PLD),field programmable gate array signals (FPGA), general-purposeprocessors, controllers, micro-controllers, micro-processors, or otherelectronic components or their combinations for realizing functions ofthe present invention.

For software implementation, the embodiments of the present inventionmay be realized by executing functional modules (such as processes,functions or the like). Software codes may be stored in a memory andexecuted by a processor. The memory may be implemented inside or outsidethe processor.

Specifically, when the computer-readable instructions are executed bythe processor 502, the processor 502 may calculate the weighted sum ofthe head representations in the target word vector based on thecorrelation parameters between the respective head representations inthe target word vector and the target head representation, to obtain thefirst intermediate vector, the correlation parameters being modelparameters updated by learning during a training process of the neuralmachine translation model; and convert the first intermediate vectorinto word vector representations with the same dimension using a presetnon-linear function, to obtain the first vector representation of thetarget head representation in the target word vector.

Specifically, when the computer-readable instructions are executed bythe processor 502, the processor 502 may perform normalizationprocessing on the correlation parameters between the respective headrepresentations in the target word vector and the target headrepresentation to obtain respective first weights of the headrepresentations in the target word vector; and calculate the weightedsum of the head representations in the target word vector based on therespective first weights, to obtain the first intermediate vector.

Preferably, the non-linear function is a hyperbolic tangent (tanh)function, an S-shaped growth curve (Sigmoid) function, or a rectifiedlinear (ReLU) function.

Specifically, when the computer-readable instructions are executed bythe processor 502, the processor 502 may calculate the attentionparameters between the target head representation and the headrepresentations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence, based on a preset attention function;perform normalization processing on the attention parameters between thetarget head representation and the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence to obtainrespective second weights of the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence; andcalculate the weighted sum of the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence based onthe respective second weights, to obtain the second vectorrepresentation of the target head representation among word vectors ofthe target word vector sequence.

Specifically, when the computer-readable instructions are executed bythe processor 502, the processor 502 may calculate a first product of afirst combination parameter and the first vector representation of thehead representation, calculate a second product of a second combinationparameter and the second vector representation of the headrepresentation, and calculate a sum of the first product and the secondproduct to obtain the third vector representation of the headrepresentation. Here, the first combination parameter and the secondcombination parameter are model parameters updated by learning duringthe training process of the neural machine translation model.

An embodiment of the present invention further provides a non-transitorycomputer-readable recording medium having computer-executableinstructions for execution by one or more processors. The execution ofthe computer-executable instructions cause the one or more processors tocarry out a method for processing word vectors of a neural machinetranslation model. The method includes obtaining a word vector sequencethat is input to an encoder and a decoder of the neural machinetranslation model, the word vector sequence including at least two wordvectors; dividing each word vector in the word vector sequence into aplurality of head representations with the same dimension; calculating,for each head representation serving as a target head representation, afirst vector representation of the target head representation in atarget word vector to which the target head representation belongs, thefirst vector representation being a non-linear function of a firstintermediate vector, and the first intermediate vector being obtained bycalculating a weighted sum of the head representations in the targetword vector based on correlation parameters between respective headrepresentations in the target word vector and the target headrepresentation; calculating a weighted sum of head representationscorresponding to respective word vectors in a target word vectorsequence to which the target head representation belongs, based onattention parameters between the target head representation and headrepresentations corresponding to respective word vectors in the targetword vector sequence, to obtain a second vector representation of thetarget head representation among word vectors of the target word vectorsequence; combining the first vector representation and the secondvector representation of each of the head representations to obtainthird vector representations of the respective head representations, andmerging the third vector representations of the head representations inthe respective word vectors to obtain the updated word vectors; andperforming training of the neural machine translation model ortranslating using the updated word vectors.

As known by a person skilled in the art, the elements and algorithmsteps of the embodiments disclosed herein may be implemented byelectronic hardware or a combination of computer software and electronichardware. Whether these functions are performed in hardware or softwaredepends on the specific application and design constraints of thesolution. A person skilled in the art may use different methods forimplementing the described functions for each particular application,but such implementation should not be considered to be beyond the scopeof the present invention.

As clearly understood by a person skilled in the art, for theconvenience and brevity of the description, the specific working processof the system, the device and the unit described above may refer to thecorresponding process in the above method embodiment, and detaileddescriptions are omitted here.

In the embodiments of the present application, it should be understoodthat the disclosed apparatus and method may be implemented in othermanners. For example, the device embodiments described above are merelyillustrative. For example, the division of the unit is only a logicalfunction division. In actual implementation, there may be anotherdivision manner, for example, units or components may be combined or beintegrated into another system, or some features may be ignored or notexecuted. In addition, the coupling or direct coupling or communicationconnection described above may be an indirect coupling or communicationconnection through some interface, device or unit, and may beelectrical, mechanical or the like.

The units described as separate components may be or may not bephysically separated, and the components displayed as units may be ormay not be physical units, that is to say, may be located in one place,or may be distributed to network units. Some or all of the units may beselected according to actual needs to achieve the objectives of theembodiments of the present invention.

In addition, each functional unit the embodiments of the presentinvention may be integrated into one processing unit, or each unit mayexist physically separately, or two or more units may be integrated intoone unit.

The functions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium if thefunctions are implemented in the form of a software functional unit andsold or used as an independent product. Based on such understanding, thetechnical solution of the present invention, which is essential orcontributes to the prior art, or a part of the technical solution, maybe embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in astorage medium, including instructions that are used to cause a computerdevice (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device,etc.) to perform all or a part of the steps of the methods described inthe embodiments of the present invention. The above storage mediumincludes various media that can store program codes, such as a USB flashdrive, a mobile hard disk, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an opticaldisk.

The present invention is not limited to the specifically describedembodiments, and various modifications, combinations and replacementsmay be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for processing word vectors of a neuralmachine translation model, the method comprising: obtaining a wordvector sequence that is input to an encoder and a decoder of the neuralmachine translation model, the word vector sequence including at leasttwo word vectors; dividing each word vector in the word vector sequenceinto a plurality of head representations with the same dimension;calculating, for each head representation serving as a target headrepresentation, a first vector representation of the target headrepresentation in a target word vector to which the target headrepresentation belongs, the first vector representation being anon-linear function of a first intermediate vector, and the firstintermediate vector being obtained by calculating a weighted sum of thehead representations in the target word vector based on correlationparameters between respective head representations in the target wordvector and the target head representation; calculating a weighted sum ofhead representations corresponding to respective word vectors in atarget word vector sequence to which the target head representationbelongs, based on attention parameters between the target headrepresentation and head representations corresponding to respective wordvectors in the target word vector sequence, to obtain a second vectorrepresentation of the target head representation among word vectors ofthe target word vector sequence; combining the first vectorrepresentation and the second vector representation of each of the headrepresentations to obtain third vector representations of the respectivehead representations, and merging the third vector representations ofthe head representations in the respective word vectors to obtain theupdated word vectors; and training the neural machine translation modelor translating using the updated word vectors.
 2. The method forprocessing word vectors of the neural machine translation model asclaimed in claim 1, wherein calculating the first vector representationof the target head representation in the target word vector to which thetarget head representation belongs includes calculating the weighted sumof the head representations in the target word vector based on thecorrelation parameters between the respective head representations inthe target word vector and the target head representation, to obtain thefirst intermediate vector, the correlation parameters being modelparameters updated by learning during a training process of the neuralmachine translation model; and converting the first intermediate vectorinto word vector representations with the same dimension using a presetnon-linear function, to obtain the first vector representation of thetarget head representation in the target word vector.
 3. The method forprocessing word vectors of the neural machine translation model asclaimed in claim 2, wherein calculating the weighted sum of the headrepresentations in the target word vector based on the correlationparameters between the respective head representations in the targetword vector and the target head representation includes performingnormalization processing on the correlation parameters between therespective head representations in the target word vector and the targethead representation to obtain respective first weights of the headrepresentations in the target word vector; and calculating the weightedsum of the head representations in the target word vector based on therespective first weights, to obtain the first intermediate vector. 4.The method for processing word vectors of the neural machine translationmodel as claimed in claim 2, wherein the non-linear function is ahyperbolic tangent (tanh) function, an S-shaped growth curve (Sigmoid)function, or a rectified linear (ReLU) function.
 5. The method forprocessing word vectors of the neural machine translation model asclaimed in claim 1, wherein calculating the weighted sum of the headrepresentations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence to which the target head representationbelongs, based on the attention parameters between the target headrepresentation and the head representations corresponding to therespective word vectors in the target word vector sequence includescalculating the attention parameters between the target headrepresentation and the head representations corresponding to therespective word vectors in the target word vector sequence, based on apreset attention function; performing normalization processing on theattention parameters between the target head representation and the headrepresentations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence to obtain respective second weights of thehead representations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence; and calculating the weighted sum of thehead representations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence based on the respective second weights, toobtain the second vector representation of the target headrepresentation among word vectors of the target word vector sequence. 6.The method for processing word vectors of the neural machine translationmodel as claimed in claim 1, wherein combining the first vectorrepresentation and the second vector representation of the headrepresentation to obtain the third vector representation of the headrepresentation includes calculating a first product of a firstcombination parameter and the first vector representation of the headrepresentation, calculating a second product of a second combinationparameter and the second vector representation of the headrepresentation, and calculating a sum of the first product and thesecond product to obtain the third vector representation of the headrepresentation, wherein the first combination parameter and the secondcombination parameter are model parameters updated by learning during atraining process of the neural machine translation model.
 7. Anapparatus for processing word vectors of a neural machine translationmodel, the apparatus comprising: a memory storing computer-executableinstructions; and one or more processors configured to execute thecomputer-executable instructions such that the one or more processorsare configured to obtain a word vector sequence that is input to anencoder and a decoder of the neural machine translation model, the wordvector sequence including at least two word vectors; divide each wordvector in the word vector sequence into a plurality of headrepresentations with the same dimension; calculate, for each headrepresentation serving as a target head representation, a first vectorrepresentation of the target head representation in a target word vectorto which the target head representation belongs, the first vectorrepresentation being a non-linear function of a first intermediatevector, and the first intermediate vector being obtained by calculatinga weighted sum of the head representations in the target word vectorbased on correlation parameters between respective head representationsin the target word vector and the target head representation; calculatea weighted sum of head representations corresponding to respective wordvectors in a target word vector sequence to which the target headrepresentation belongs, based on attention parameters between the targethead representation and head representations corresponding to respectiveword vectors in the target word vector sequence, to obtain a secondvector representation of the target head representation among wordvectors of the target word vector sequence; combine the first vectorrepresentation and the second vector representation of each of the headrepresentations to obtain third vector representations of the respectivehead representations, and merge the third vector representations of thehead representations in the respective word vectors to obtain theupdated word vectors; and train the neural machine translation model ortranslate using the updated word vectors.
 8. The apparatus forprocessing word vectors of the neural machine translation model asclaimed in claim 7, wherein the one or more processors are configured tocalculate the weighted sum of the head representations in the targetword vector based on the correlation parameters between the respectivehead representations in the target word vector and the target headrepresentation, to obtain the first intermediate vector, the correlationparameters being model parameters updated by learning during a trainingprocess of the neural machine translation model; and convert the firstintermediate vector into word vector representations with the samedimension using a preset non-linear function, to obtain the first vectorrepresentation of the target head representation in the target wordvector.
 9. The apparatus for processing word vectors of the neuralmachine translation model as claimed in claim 8, wherein the one or moreprocessors are configured to perform normalization processing on thecorrelation parameters between the respective head representations inthe target word vector and the target head representation to obtainrespective first weights of the head representations in the target wordvector; and calculate the weighted sum of the head representations inthe target word vector based on the respective first weights, to obtainthe first intermediate vector.
 10. The apparatus for processing wordvectors of the neural machine translation model as claimed in claim 8,wherein the non-linear function is a hyperbolic tangent (tanh) function,an S-shaped growth curve (Sigmoid) function, or a rectified linear(ReLU) function.
 11. The apparatus for processing word vectors of theneural machine translation model as claimed in claim 7, wherein the oneor more processors are configured to calculate the attention parametersbetween the target head representation and the head representationscorresponding to the respective word vectors in the target word vectorsequence, based on a preset attention function; perform normalizationprocessing on the attention parameters between the target headrepresentation and the head representations corresponding to therespective word vectors in the target word vector sequence to obtainrespective second weights of the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence; andcalculate the weighted sum of the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence based onthe respective second weights, to obtain the second vectorrepresentation of the target head representation among word vectors ofthe target word vector sequence.
 12. The apparatus for processing wordvectors of the neural machine translation model as claimed in claim 7,wherein the one or more processors are configured to calculate a firstproduct of a first combination parameter and the first vectorrepresentation of the head representation, calculate a second product ofa second combination parameter and the second vector representation ofthe head representation, and calculate a sum of the first product andthe second product to obtain the third vector representation of the headrepresentation, wherein the first combination parameter and the secondcombination parameter are model parameters updated by learning during atraining process of the neural machine translation model.
 13. Anon-transitory computer-readable recording medium havingcomputer-executable instructions for execution by one or moreprocessors, wherein, the computer-executable instructions, whenexecuted, cause the one or more processors to carry out a method forprocessing word vectors of a neural machine translation model, themethod comprising: obtaining a word vector sequence that is input to anencoder and a decoder of the neural machine translation model, the wordvector sequence including at least two word vectors; dividing each wordvector in the word vector sequence into a plurality of headrepresentations with the same dimension; calculating, for each headrepresentation serving as a target head representation, a first vectorrepresentation of the target head representation in a target word vectorto which the target head representation belongs, the first vectorrepresentation being a non-linear function of a first intermediatevector, and the first intermediate vector being obtained by calculatinga weighted sum of the head representations in the target word vectorbased on correlation parameters between respective head representationsin the target word vector and the target head representation;calculating a weighted sum of head representations corresponding torespective word vectors in a target word vector sequence to which thetarget head representation belongs, based on attention parametersbetween the target head representation and head representationscorresponding to respective word vectors in the target word vectorsequence, to obtain a second vector representation of the target headrepresentation among word vectors of the target word vector sequence;combining the first vector representation and the second vectorrepresentation of each of the head representations to obtain thirdvector representations of the respective head representations, andmerging the third vector representations of the head representations inthe respective word vectors to obtain the updated word vectors; andtraining the neural machine translation model or translating using theupdated word vectors.
 14. The non-transitory computer-readable recordingmedium as claimed in claim 13, wherein calculating the first vectorrepresentation of the target head representation in the target wordvector to which the target head representation belongs includescalculating the weighted sum of the head representations in the targetword vector based on the correlation parameters between the respectivehead representations in the target word vector and the target headrepresentation, to obtain the first intermediate vector, the correlationparameters being model parameters updated by learning during a trainingprocess of the neural machine translation model; and converting thefirst intermediate vector into word vector representations with the samedimension using a preset non-linear function, to obtain the first vectorrepresentation of the target head representation in the target wordvector.
 15. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium asclaimed in claim 14, wherein calculating the weighted sum of the headrepresentations in the target word vector based on the correlationparameters between the respective head representations in the targetword vector and the target head representation includes performingnormalization processing on the correlation parameters between therespective head representations in the target word vector and the targethead representation to obtain respective first weights of the headrepresentations in the target word vector; and calculating the weightedsum of the head representations in the target word vector based on therespective first weights, to obtain the first intermediate vector. 16.The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium as claimed inclaim 14, wherein the non-linear function is a hyperbolic tangent (tanh)function, an S-shaped growth curve (Sigmoid) function, or a rectifiedlinear (ReLU) function.
 17. The non-transitory computer-readablerecording medium as claimed in claim 13, wherein calculating theweighted sum of the head representations corresponding to the respectiveword vectors in the target word vector sequence to which the target headrepresentation belongs, based on the attention parameters between thetarget head representation and the head representations corresponding tothe respective word vectors in the target word vector sequence includescalculating the attention parameters between the target headrepresentation and the head representations corresponding to therespective word vectors in the target word vector sequence, based on apreset attention function; performing normalization processing on theattention parameters between the target head representation and the headrepresentations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence to obtain respective second weights of thehead representations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence; and calculating the weighted sum of thehead representations corresponding to the respective word vectors in thetarget word vector sequence based on the respective second weights, toobtain the second vector representation of the target headrepresentation among word vectors of the target word vector sequence.18. The non-transitory computer-readable recording medium as claimed inclaim 13, wherein combining the first vector representation and thesecond vector representation of the head representation to obtain thethird vector representation of the head representation includescalculating a first product of a first combination parameter and thefirst vector representation of the head representation, calculating asecond product of a second combination parameter and the second vectorrepresentation of the head representation, and calculating a sum of thefirst product and the second product to obtain the third vectorrepresentation of the head representation, wherein the first combinationparameter and the second combination parameter are model parametersupdated by learning during a training process of the neural machinetranslation model.